Ruprecht VI. (Nassau)

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Ruprecht VI. (V.) (* before 1280 ; † November 2, 1304 ) was Count of Nassau from the Walramic line of the family.

Life

He was the second but oldest survivor of five sons of the future King Adolf von Nassau and his wife Imagina von Isenburg-Limburg . His date of birth is not known, but since he issued a certificate in 1292 confirming a gift from his grandmother Mathilde von Geldern-Zütphen to the Altenburg monastery, he must have already been of legal age at that time.

As part of the election promises of the newly elected King Adolf and to confirm his alliance with King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia , a marriage agreement was concluded in June 1292 for Ruprecht with Wenceslas’s daughter Agnes of Böhmen, who was still a child. The still young Agnes was handed over to Ruprecht in 1296, but died shortly afterwards. After that, Wenzel increasingly turned away from Adolf.

Ruprecht fought on July 2, 1298 in the battle of Göllheim , in which his father was killed. He himself was captured by the Archbishop of Mainz , Gerhard II von Eppstein . His mother Imagina asked the wife of the new King Albrecht von Habsburg to release her son at the court day in Nuremberg in autumn 1298 . In 1299 he was released from the archbishop's custody by the Lord of Rheinberg after the Mainz bishop's registers (No. 0617).

Ruprecht followed his father as Count of Nassau and held the southern (Walramschen) part of the County of Nassau. In Idstein he continued to build city walls. He supported King Wenceslaus in his quarrel with King Albrecht and was buried in Prague after his death . When he died childless in 1205 five years after his release from imprisonment by the Archbishop of Mainz, Gerhardt von Eppstein, his brother Gerlach succeeded him as Count of Nassau-Idstein-Wiesbaden.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This was possible for members of his class at the age of 13 ½ years.
  2. ↑ Jörg Konrad Hoensch: History of Bohemia: From the Slavic conquest to the present. Munich, 1997, p. 107, RI VI, 2 n.10, in: Regesta Imperii Online, (accessed on February 10, 2013)
  3. ^ RI VI, 2 n. 704, in: Regesta Imperii Online, (accessed February 10, 2013)
  4. ^ RI VI, 2 n.1002, in: Regesta Imperii Online, (accessed February 10, 2013)
  5. ↑ RI VI, 2 n.1056, in: Regesta Imperii Online, (accessed February 10, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Ruprecht VI.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruprecht VI. from Nassau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nassau
DATE OF BIRTH before 1280
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1304